Graphic knowledge: Albrecht Dürer and the imagination

• Autores: Peter Parshall
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 95, Nº 3, 2013, págs. 393-410
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The theoretical section of Dürer’s treatise on human proportion is well recognized for its contribution to Renaissance aesthetic discourse, although generally considered to follow Italian precedent. In fact, its originality is greater than assumed and bears an intimate connection with Dürer’s artistic production in a quest for epistemological certainty. The relation between nature and the imagination lay at the center of Dürer’s investigations between 1512 and 1516, but in the paradoxical sense that he vigorously resisted the mind’s ability to invent. Drafts for the treatise quietly expose a fear of transgression that ultimately hobbled the artist and his legacy.